Abhishek Gupta

Microsoft

Abhishek Gupta is the founder of Montreal AI Ethics Institute and an AI Ethics Researcher at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on applied technical and policy methods to address ethical, safety and inclusivity concerns in using AI in different domains. Abhishek comes from a strong technical background, working as a Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Microsoft in Montreal.

He is also the founder of the AI Ethics community in Montreal that has close to 1200 members from diverse backgrounds who do a deep dive into AI ethics and offer public consultations to initiatives like the Montreal Declaration for Responsible AI. His work has been featured by the United Nations, Oxford, Stanford Social Innovation Review, World Economic Forum and he travels frequently across North America and Europe to help governments, industry and academia understand AI and how they can incorporate ethical, safe and inclusive development processes within their work.